Lot 553
1839 Coronet Head Cent. PCGS graded MS-64 Brown. Frosty light to medium brown with steel brown toning on the highpoints. The fields are satiny and attractive, covered with microscopic die flowlines creating nice cartwheel luster. The best identifying mark, and it is faint, is a small spot of slightly darker toning in the field under the right edge of star 5. M-LDS with clear rim cud breaks from star 5.5 to star 6.5, from star 7 to star 8, and from right of star 9 down to star 11, plus a smaller one under the 18. The bisecting obverse die crack is clear, as is the one from the nostril down through the chin into the field below. An attractive cent in a neat die state. Our grade is MS60. Pop 3; 2 in 66 BN; 1 in 65 RB. Only 6 graded at PCGS for the variety. DWH #2651 (PCGS # 37234) .
Estimated Value $1,500-UP.
Ex Roscoe E. Staples, Welchville, Maine, 8/2/1943 (comes with his old collection pillbox)-his wife Beulah-American Numismatic Rarities 3/8/05:1171 (via Chris McCawley).
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